Irgun Brit Zion photographs

Identifier
irn515475
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.498
Dates
1 Jan 1901 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515475

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Sara Trozki Koper donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives. She recovered these photographs, which had been gathered by her sister Hana, after the war in the Kovno ghetto.

Scope and Content

Consists of 31 photographs originally gathered by Hana Zippora Trozki, a member of the Irgun Brit Zion, a Zionist youth organization in the Kovno ghetto, which took part in resistance activities. She pasted these photographs of her family and friends before the war and in the ghetto in her journals, which she then hid. Hana was killed in an aktion on July 8, 1944. When her sister, Sara Trozki Koper was liberated from the Stutthof concentration camp, she discovered these journals and removed the pictures, burning the journals for fear of being discovered with them.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.